POST for creating resources in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to send a POST request to create a new user.

Rest API

response = requests.[1]('https://api.example.com/users', json={'name': 'Alice'})

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Apost

Bget

Cdelete

Dput

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Common Mistakes

Using GET instead of POST will not create a resource.

Using DELETE or PUT are for other purposes.

The post method sends data to create a new resource.

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medium

Complete the code to check if the POST request was successful.

Rest API

if response.status_code == [1]:
    print('User created successfully')

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A500

B201

C404

D200

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Common Mistakes

Using 200 means OK but not specifically resource creation.

404 means not found, 500 means server error.

Status code 201 means the resource was created successfully.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to send JSON data in the POST request.

Rest API

response = requests.post('https://api.example.com/users', [1])

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A{'name': 'Alice'}

B'name=Alice'

Cjson={'name': 'Alice'}

Djson.dumps({'name': 'Alice'})

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Common Mistakes

Passing a dictionary to data sends form data, not JSON.

Using json.dumps with data sends a string, not JSON.

Use the json parameter to send JSON data properly.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a POST request with headers and JSON data.

Rest API

headers = {'Content-Type': [1]
response = requests.post('https://api.example.com/users', headers=headers, [2]={'name': 'Bob'})

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A'application/json'

Bjson

Cdata

D'text/plain'

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Common Mistakes

Using data instead of json sends form data.

Setting Content-Type to text/plain is incorrect for JSON.

Set the Content-Type header to application/json and use the json parameter to send JSON data.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to handle the POST response and print the new user's ID.

Rest API

response = requests.post('https://api.example.com/users', json={'name': 'Carol'})
if response.status_code == [1]:
    data = response.[2]()
    print('New user ID:', data[[3]])

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A201

Bjson

C'id'

D200

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Checking for 200 instead of 201.

Using response.text instead of response.json().

Accessing a wrong key instead of 'id'.

Check for status code 201, parse JSON response with json(), and access the 'id' key.